Refereed Conference Proceedings
Lohn J., Hornby, G. S., and Linden D.
Evolution, Re-evolution, and Prototype of an X-Band Antenna for NASA's Space Technology 5 Mission.
Sixth International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to
Hardware, 2005.
Abstract;
PDF (lohn_ices05.pdf);
postscript (lohn_ices05.ps);
gzipped postscript: (lohn_ices05.ps.gz).
Hornby, G. S.
Measuring, Enabling and Comparing Modularity, Regularity
and Hierarchy in Evolutionary Design.
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. Springer-Verlag, 2005.
Abstract;
PDF (hornby_gecco05.pdf);
postscript (hornby_gecco05.ps);
gzipped postscript: (hornby_gecco05.ps.gz).
Lohn, J. D., Linden, D. S., Hornby, G. S., Kraus, W. F.,
Rodriguez-Arroyo, A., Seufert, S. S.
Evolutionary Design of a Single-Wire Circularly-polarized
X-Band Antenna for NASA's Space Technology 5 Mission.
Proc. IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Symposium, 2005.
Globus A., Hornby G., Larchev G., Hancher M., Cannon H., Lohn J.
Teleoperated Modular Robots for Lunar Operations.
Proc. AIAA 1st Intelligent Systems Technical Conference,
2004.
Lohn J., Hornby G., Larchev G., Kraus W.
Evolvable Hardware for Space Applications.
Proc. AIAA 1st Intelligent Systems Technical Conference, 2004.
Hornby, G. S.
Shortcomings with Tree-structured Edge Encodings for Neural Networks.
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. Springer-Verlag, 2004.
Nominated for: Best Paper, GP Track.
Abstract;
PDF (hornby_gecco04.pdf);
postscript (hornby_gecco04.ps);
gzipped postscript: (hornby_gecco04.ps.gz).
Lohn, J. D., Linden, D. S., Hornby, G. S., Kraus, W. F.,
Rodriguez-Arroyo, A., Seufert, S. S.
Evolutionary Design of an X-band antenna
for NASA's Space Technology 5 Mission.
Proc. IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Symposium, Vol. 3, 2313-2316, 2004.
Hornby, G. S.
Generative Representations for Evolving Families of Designs.
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pp 1678-1689, Springer-Verlag, 2003.
Nominated for: Best Paper, GP Track.
Abstract;
PDF (hornby_gecco03.pdf);
postscript (hornby_gecco03.ps);
gzipped postscript: (hornby_gecco03.ps.gz).
Lohn J., Crawford J., Globus A., Hornby, G., Kraus W., Larchev G., Pryor A., and Sriviastava D.
Evolvable Systems for Space Applications.
International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology (SMC-IT), 2003.
Abstract.
Hornby, G. S. and Pollack, J. B.
Body-Brain Co-evolution Using L-systems as a Generative Encoding.
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 2001.
Abstract;
PDF (hornby_gecco01.pdf);
postscript (hornby_gecco01.ps);
gzipped postscript: (hornby_gecco01.ps.gz).
Hornby, G. S. and Pollack, J. B.
The Advantages of Generative Grammatical Encodings for Physical Design.
Congress on Evolutionary Computation. 2001.
Abstract;
PDF (hornby_cec01.pdf);
postscript (hornby_cec01.ps);
gzipped postscript: (hornby_cec01.ps.gz).
Hornby, G. S., Lipson, H. and Pollack, J. B.
Evolution of Generative Design Systems for Modular Physical Robots.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2001.
Abstract;
PDF (hornby_icra01.pdf);
postscript (hornby_icra01.ps);
gzipped postscript: (hornby_icra01.ps.gz).
Pollack, J. B., Lipson, H., Funes, P., and Hornby, G.
First Three Generations of Evolved Robots.
EvoRobots, 62-71, 2001.
Hornby, G.S., Takamura, S., Yokono, J., Hanagata, O., Yamamoto, T. and Fujita, M.
Evolving Robust Gaits with AIBO.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
pp. 3040-3045. 2000.
Abstract;
PDF (hornby_icra00.pdf);
postscript (hornby_icra00.ps);
gzipped postscript: (hornby_icra00.ps.gz).
Hornby, G.S., Takamura, S., Yokono, J., Hanagata, O., Fujita, M. and Pollack, J.
Evolution of Controllers from a High-Level Simulator to a High DOF Robot.
Miller, J. (ed) Evolvable Systems: from biology to hardware;
proceedings of the third international conference (ICES 2000).
Springer (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 1801). pp. 80-89. 2000.
Abstract;
PDF (hornby_ices00.pdf);
postscript (hornby_ices00.ps);
gzipped postscript: (hornby_ices00.ps.gz).
Pollack, J. B., Lipson. H., Ficici, S., Funes, P., Hornby, G. and Watson, R.
Evolutionary Techniques in Physical Robotics.
Miller, J. (ed) Evolvable Systems: from biology to hardware;
proceedings of the third international conference (ICES 2000).
Springer (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 1801). pp. 175-186. 2000.
Abstract;
PDF (pollack_ices00.pdf);
gzipped postscript: (pollack_ices00.ps.gz).
Takamura, S., Hornby, G.S., Yamamoto, T., Yokono, J., and Fujita, M.
Evolution of Dynamic Gaits for a Robot.
IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics.
pp. 192-193. 2000.
Hornby, G.S., Fujita, M., Takamura, S., Yamamoto, T. and Hanagata, O.
Autonomous Evolution of Gaits with the Sony Quadruped Robot.
Proceedings of 1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO).
Banzhaf, Daida, Eiben, Garzon, Honavar, Jakiela, Smith, eds., Morgan Kauffmann, pp. 1297-1304. 1999.
Abstract;
PDF (hornby_gecco99_sony.pdf);
postscript (hornby_gecco99_sony.ps);
gzipped postscript: (hornby_gecco99_sony.ps.gz).
Hornby, G. S. and Mirtich, B.
Diffuse versus True Coevolution in a Physics-based World.
Proceedings of 1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO). Banzhaf, Daida, Eiben, Garzon, Honavar, Jakiela, Smith, eds., Morgan Kauffmann, pp. 1305-1312. 1999.
Abstract;
PDF (hornby_gecco99_merl.pdf);
postscript (hornby_gecco99_merl.ps);
gzipped postscript: (hornby_gecco99_merl.ps.gz).
Watson, R. A., Hornby, G. S. and Pollack, J. B.
Modeling Building-Block Interdependency .
Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, proceedings of Fifth International Conference /PPSN V,
Springer, pp.97-106. 1998.
Abstract;
PDF (watson_ppsn98.pdf);
postscript (watson_ppsn98.ps);
gzipped postscript: (watson_ppsn98.ps.gz).
Refereed Workshops and Symposiums, and Posters
Hornby, G. S.
Properties of Artifact Representations for Evolutionary Design.
Workshop on Self-Organization and Development in Artificial and
Natural Systems,
Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living
Systems (ALIFE9), 2004. Springer-Verlag.
Hornby, G. S.
Improving Evolvability through Generative Representations.
Workshop on Modularity, regularity and hierarchy in open-ended
evolutionary computation,
Proc. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2004. Springer-Verlag.
Hornby, G. S.
Creating Complex Building Blocks through Generative Representations.
AAAI Spring Symposium: Computation Synthesis: From Basic Building Blocks
to High Level Functionality; TR SS-03-02, pp 98-105. AAAI Press, 2003.
Abstract;
PDF (hornby_ascs03.pdf);
postscript (hornby_ascs03.ps);
gzipped postscript: (hornby_ascs03.ps.gz).
Pollack, J. B., Lipson, H., Funes, P., Ficici, S. G. and Hornby, G.
Coevolutionary Robotics.
The First NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware (EH'99). John R. Koza, Adrian Stoica, Didier Keymeulen, Jason Lohn, eds., IEEE Press. 1999.
Abstract;
PDF (nasa_eh99.pdf).
Werger, B. B., Fontan, M. S., Goldberg, D., Hornby, G., Mataric, M. J., and Song, S.
Multiple Agents from the Bottom Up: The Interaction Lab's Robot Competition Effort.
AAAI/IAAI. pp. 802-803. 1997.
Theses
Hornby, G. S.
Generative Representations for Evolutionary Design Automation.
Brandeis University, Dept. of Computer Science, Ph.D. Dissertation. 2003.
Abstract;
PDF (hornby_phd.pdf);
postscript (hornby_phd.ps);
gzipped postscript: (hornby_phd.ps.gz).
Hornby, G.S.
The Recombination Operator, its Correlation to the Fitness Landscape and Search Performance.
Master's Thesis, University of Alberta, Department of Computing Science, 1996.
Abstract;
PDF (hornby_msc.pdf);
postscript (hornby_msc.ps);
gzipped postscript: (hornby_msc.ps.gz).